Senior Staff Engineer

Responsibilities

• Develop software architectures and code for complex, distributed, mission-critical systems from concept through deployment and sustainment.
• Design, develop, and optimize ground control software for low-latency communication with UAVs and autonomous platforms.
• Build high-performance client and server applications for telemetry processing, mission planning, and real-time control.
• Implement React and TypeScript user interfaces for operator workflows, spatial-data visualization, sensor feeds, and mission state.
• Create and maintain architecture diagrams, behavior diagrams, and technical documentation for internal and customer deliverables.
• Derive software requirements from system-level requirements, maintain requirements traceability, and support system decomposition and interface definition.
• Participate in architecture trade studies, technical decision-making, system design reviews, and end-to-end integration with hardware, network, test, and integration teams.
• Communicate technical concepts to engineering, program management, and customer stakeholders while providing cross-functional technical leadership.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related technical field.
• 8+ years of software engineering experience.
• 3+ years of software architecture or technical leadership experience.
• Proficiency in a strongly typed language such as C#, TypeScript, Java, or C++, with exposure to lower-level systems or protocol integration.
• Familiarity with software development lifecycle methodologies, systems engineering processes and standards, requirements management, traceability, version control, and CI/CD tools.
• Preferred experience in aerospace, defense, robotics, autonomous systems, aviation, automotive, telecommunications, or other complex-systems domains.
• Preferred experience with ground control software, mission planning tools, real-time visualization platforms, MBSE, cloud-native architectures, containerization, orchestration, and autonomy or command-and-control standards.
• Preferred familiarity with Cameo Systems Modeler, MagicDraw, Stell, JIRA, Confluence, A-GRA, OMS, and Universal Command & Control Interface.
• Ability to work across engineering disciplines, translate complex requirements into software solutions, balance technical and operational constraints, and develop and manage Interface Control Documents.

Benefits

• Full-time regular employees receive bonus, benefits, and equity in addition to pay within the listed range.
• Temporary employees receive a temporary benefits package applicable after 60 days of employment.
• Employment is contingent on a cleared background and possible reference check.
• The posting indicates facilities and offices across the U.S. and internationally but does not specify a work arrangement.